[s-cars] Re: EDL vs ELD explained....

[Igor Kessel]

Joseph Pizzimenti wrote:
>
> Igor,
> Wanna trade?
>
> --- Igor Kessel <igor at s-cars.org> wrote:
> > Keith Maddock wrote:
> >
> > > ABS-based EDL  (Electronic Differential Locking)
> > replaced the
> >
> Electronically-Locking-Mechanical-Locker-Differential
> > for 95.5 according to urS4.com.  Im not sure of the
> > exact changover date.
> >
> > Keith,
> > thank you for such a dissertation. Funny you should
> > post it today, after
> > a couple of my friends and I have argued almost
> > until almost losing our
> > voices, over a Martini this past Sunday on this very
> > subject. Thay had
> > seriously tried to tell me that a Traction Control
> > equipped car like a
> > BMW would be equal in snow to an AWD car such as an
> > Audi quattro.
> > Of course, they were pushing this nonsense on me
> > only coz they have
> > never driven a quattro in snow them selves. He-he..
> > You have just saved me a lot of typing. I've cut and
> > pasted your post in
> > my e-mail to them.
> >
> > Hell, even between my previous Torsen + rear Diff
> > Lock '89 200TQ and my
> > present Torsen + the so-called "EDL" '97 UrS6 there
> > is a world of
> > difference. My wife's '98 A4 is also equipped with
> > this "feature". I am
> > very pissed at Audi, having already tasted the
> > traction of the real Diff
> > Locker.

Mmmm, you'll have to take a ticket, Joe...
:)

--
Igor Kessel
two turbo quattros